Complexity Digest 2009.01 - 04.01

04-Jan-2009

Happy New Year 2009!
To all our readers, contributors, and friends!
We are now entering the 10th year of publication of Complexity Digest and we are proud that over the years we could keep up the weekly schedule only occasionally interrupted by an accident and illness of the Editor in Chief. Unfortunately my health situation got worse, so there will be some changes and in the short term we might have to switch to a bi-weekly schedule. We will keep you posted. Thank you all for your support.

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Technology and Informal Education: What Is Taught, What Is Learned, Science Bookmark and Share

Excerpts: Which specific factor is most important in raising IQ performance at a given time and place depends on the locus of social change occurring then and there (6, 8). Increasing levels of formal education and urbanization were particularly important in the United States and Europe in the first half of the 20th century (9, 10). More recently, technological change may have taken the dominant role.

The changing balance of media technologies has led to losses as well as gains. For example, as verbal IQ has risen, verbal SATs have fallen.